What are all the dots?

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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby pinktwanger » Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:59 am

Hi. I think you will find that people do it to add a new post so that the topic goes back to the top of the message board. This makes it prominent when searching new posts.
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby suspend6 » Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:10 am

Hmmm. Doesn't seem a good use of one's time to be checking out "dots".
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby George Geddes » Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:02 am

If you wish to 'promote' an old post, you could always do so by putting in some more meaningfultext; likewise if you yourself wish to delete something, replace with some explanation.

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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby martcaster » Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:16 am

erm!.......lads!!......what has this got to do with................drums?.........................Just askin'...................y'know...............
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby Iain Purdon » Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:56 am

You make an excellent point, Martin!
Apart from players reading dots - but that’s a different sort of dot.
Dotty to have the thread in the drum section.
I have despatched it to the Lounge!
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby Stu's Dad » Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:18 pm

I saw a post with just a dot in the For Sale section on the Charlie Hall forum a few years ago. I asked about the price but the seller didn't come back to me.

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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby GoldenStreet » Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:12 pm

Maybe, Ludwig, the original dot poster back in 2009, could provide a spot of clarification!

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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby AlanMcKillop » Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:06 pm

I’m surprised that no one has got this correct.
Let’s say you post an item for sale and at the same time list it on eBay, if you get no follow up posts on the thread and the item subsequently sells on eBay, you can go back to the original post and hit the X to delete the post. However, if someone has commented on the thread you don’t get the option of the X to delete so most will use the edit function to delete the post but you must leave something in the post, so it makes sense to leave a full stop or dot.
Although I used the for sale board as an example, it applies across the platform.
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby suspend6 » Sat Aug 21, 2021 4:19 am

martcaster wrote:erm!.......lads!!......what has this got to do with................drums?.........................Just askin'...................y'know...............


Nothing! Nor has it do do with ANY particular topic. It just happens to be a question raised by a person who only follows the Drums/Drummers threads.
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Re: What are all the dots?

Postby Iain Purdon » Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:02 am

Yes, that’s why it’s now in the Lounge, which is the miscellaneous area for anything you like. That way we can keep the specialist boards exclusively for their area of interest.

Now that the Shadows are no longer a functioning group there is little we can put in about them that isn’t already here. However there’s loads to say about, for example, Drums and Drummers - and in all the other dedicated forums - and that’s why the far-sighted creators of this site organised it that way.

They also put in the brilliant Search facility, quickly allowing you to find anything you might want to read about.

The site started as a chatty area for exchanging what people knew. It’s now evolved into an encyclopaedia!

Latest entry by Alan, fully explaining the mystery!
AlanMcKillop wrote:I’m surprised that no one has got this correct.
Let’s say you post an item for sale and at the same time list it on eBay, if you get no follow up posts on the thread and the item subsequently sells on eBay, you can go back to the original post and hit the X to delete the post. However, if someone has commented on the thread you don’t get the option of the X to delete so most will use the edit function to delete the post but you must leave something in the post, so it makes sense to leave a full stop or dot.
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